{"id":2272,"date":"2019-02-16T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2019-02-16T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T14:12:16","slug":"saturday-16th-february-ib3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/more-treatment\/saturday-16th-february-ib3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 16th February&#8230; Ib+2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day three of the Ibrutinib, and I&#8217;m pleased to say that I haven&#8217;t detected any of the possible side effects! \ud83d\ude42 . On the other hand it is very early on in the regime, so I will continue to look out for them.  Similarly I haven&#8217;t noticed any reduction in the size of the visible lymph nodes, but again early days.  I have another check up on Monday, so it will be interesting (such an understatement!) to see if the chemistry has stabilised, or better still, improved.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I am reducing my steroid dose, down to 30mg a day until Monday, when I reduce it to 15mg for 5 days, then down to 10mg.  This gradual reduction should reduce any unpleasant side effects of steroid reduction (such as the oedema) that can occur after a course of relatively high steroid dose.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling well in myself, and eating well, and more importantly, drinking plenty of fluids to ease the load on my kidneys &#8211; I hope there will be an improvement in creatinine clearance as well as some of the liver markers on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Onwards and Upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three of the Ibrutinib, and I&#8217;m pleased to say that I haven&#8217;t detected any of the possible side effects! \ud83d\ude42 . On the other hand it is very early on in the regime, so I will continue to look out for them. Similarly I haven&#8217;t noticed any reduction in the size of the visible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}